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Websiteiaventures.com
Bloginformationarbitr...
Twitter@infoarbitrage
BirthplaceDetroit, MI
Birthdate12/8/65

Degrees

University of Michigan/Ann Arbor, BBA 1987
Finance, Economics, Organizational Psychology
Columbia University, MBA 1993
Finance, Accounting, Strategy

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Roger Ehrenberg

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Prior to forming IA Ventures, Roger was an active angel investor through IA Capital Partners, a seed-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. From 2004 to 2009, Roger seeded 40 companies, including bit.ly, Buddy Media, Clickable, Global Bay Mobile Technologies (sold to Verifone), Invite Media (sold to Google), Magnetic, MyTrade (sold to TD Ameritrade), Solve Media, Stocktwits, TheLadders, TweetDeck (sold to Twitter) and Wallstrip (sold to CBS Interactive).

Roger currently sits on the boards of Simple, Kinetic Global, Metamarkets, Recorded Future, and The Trade Desk, and is a Board observer of SavingStar. Formerly, he served on the boards of Alphacet, Buddy Media, Global Bay Mobile Technologies, Magnetic, Selerity and Stocktwits.

Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and CEO of DB Advisors, LLC, Deutsche Bank’s internal hedge fund trading platform where his 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital across multiple strategies with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Before DB Advisors, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Roger’s team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award. As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
TweetDeck 5/10Series B$3.5M8
Blogtalkradio 3/10Series B$1.94M4
Blog Talk Radio 3/10Series B$1.9M4
oneforty 1/10Series A$1.98M7
SolveMedia 1/10Series A7
Ticketfly 4/09Venture Round1
bitly 3/09Series A$2M14
Magnetic 3/09Seed$1.25M5
TweetDeck 1/09Seed$300k8
StockTwits 12/08Series A$800k6
StockTwits 9/08Angel7
OrganizedWisdom 6/08Series A$2.3M6
Path101 2/08Angel$350k21
Lookery 2/08Seed$900k21
Standout Jobs 1/08Series AC$1.57M10
TubeMogul 1/08Angel1
Salesforce Buddy Media 9/07Series A$1.5M5
Covestor 6/07Angel$1M1
Blog Talk Radio 1/07Angel1
vSocial 1/07Angel1
Mashery 1/07Angel6
MyTrade 1/07Angel3
WallStrip 1/07Angel$600k4
Clickable 1/06Angel1
Mimeo 1/05Angel1

Videos

Sources

  1. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  3. TechCrunch BlogTalkRadio Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Oneforty Rolls Out Premium Twitter App Marketplace; Raises $1.9 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. articles.businessinsider.com [edit]
  6. Citation Needed [add]
  7. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) []
  8. EXCLUSIVE: Roger Ehrenberg leads $1.25 M in Domdex (thedeal.com) [edit]
  9. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. StockTwits Raises $800K For Twitter-Fueled Stock Community (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
  11. StockTwits.com Closes Angel Funding (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
  12. OrganizedWisdom, the “Mahalo For Health”, Raises $2.3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Company Blog Post (blog.path101.com) [edit]
  14. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Standout Jobs Raises $2 Million Financing from iNovia Capital (blog.standoutjobs.com) [edit]
  16. Investor Portfolio (informationarbitrage.com) [edit]
  17. Acebucks Gets $1.5 Million For Virtual Facebook Currency (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. thealarmclock.com [edit]
  19. Investor Portfolio (informationarbitrage.com) [edit]
  20. Investor Portfolio (informationarbitrage.com) [edit]
  21. blog.lookery.com [edit]
  22. Blog Post (andyswan.com) [edit]
  23. newteevee.com [edit]
  24. Investor Portfolio (informationarbitrage.com) [edit]
  25. Investor Portfolio (informationarbitrage.com) [edit]
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